Tombstone epitaph., 1887-11-12
APPLICATIONS FOR PATENT.
First Publication Sept. 10. I887.l APPLICATION FOR U. s, PATENT NO, 4s0.
Notice of Application of Charles w. Leach. for a Patent to the southern Belle
 Mining Claim.

Mining Claim.
 UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE, l TUCSON, Ariz., September 2, A. D. 1887. To ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
 Notice is hereby given that Charles w. Leach whose postoffice address is Tombstone, Arizona, has filed an application in this office for a United States patent for fourteen hundred and sixth-three linear feet of the Southern Belle mining claim, vein lode or mineral deposit, bearing silver and gold, with surface ground six hundred feet in width lying and being situated in the Tombstone Mining District, in the County of Cochise and Territory of Ari- zona and the said Charles w. Leach being now about to make application through this office to the United States for patent for said mining claim, which claim is more fully and particularly described as to metes and bounds by the official plat and field notes of survey thereof now cn file with the Register of the U. ;. land ofhce at Tucson Arizona, which field notes of survey describe the boundaries and extent of said claim on the surface with magnetic variation at II' 43' East as follows, to-wit:
 Beginning at the initial monument mentioned in the location notice, and marking the south
 westerly end center of the claim, at post 4 inches square in mound of stone. post marked
 I. NJ s. B. M. C. No. I; thence s 8o' ar E 300 feet to a inch post marked S B. M. C. NO. 2i tnence IN 43 If E5z'I ieet 'o inch post marked $. B. M. C. No. 3; thence N 38' 37' w 70 feet, intersect east line of Modoc M. C. lot No. Io6. N 22' 5o' o6 feet from post marked M. M. C. No. 3, 295 feet intersect center line of clam, N 4o' 33' E I35 feet from inch post marked s. B. NJ. C. N. 4; thence N 8o0 2I' w 3r3 feet intersect south end line of Michigan Central Nj. C. south o5' o4 E 30 feet from post marked S Ex. G. C. No. 2, SIS feet intersect south end line of Modoc M. C. 11k ,zk (xox | faat frot,, Net marked s Ex. G. C. No. and 4o feet from post marked M. N.. c. No. 3ST feet intersect easterly side line $. Ex. G. C. M. C. lot No. 43 s 38' SO w I5.5 feet from location monument, post inches square marked s. B. M C. No. $, from which U. $. M. M. No. I bears N 3o' I7' w 1907 feet distant. the quarter section corner between sections I3 and I8 east boundary T 20 K a2 bears s 7o' o4' E 4 inch post marked S B. M. C. No. 6; thence s 8o0 aT survey of exterior lines. Area I6 625 acres. The conflict of .82 acres with Michigan Central
 M. C. is not claimed by the applicant, leaving the net area IS 8o3 acres claimed, This mining claim is of record in the office ol the County Recorder of Cochise County. in the Territory of Arizona The presumed general course or direction of the said vein. lode or mineral deposit of the snid Southern Belle Mining Claim being shown as near as can be determined iTOH present ueVelopuients ulNh tue Sdiu oihCidi plat thereof on file with the Register of the Land Office as aforesaid; the claim now sought to be patented, being fourteen hundred and sixty three linear feet thereof, together with the surface ground shown upon said official plat, the same being bounded as follows, to-wt: On the Northeast by the Michigan Central Lot No. I7e, on the Southeast by the Vanguard, on the Southwest by the Rodman and on the Northwest by the $. Ex. Grand Central Lot No 43. The same claim being designated as Lot No. Ieo. and survey No 8I5 on the official plat of said mining claim filed with the Register of the land office as aforesaid.
 Any and all persons claiming adversely the mining ground vein, lode or premises or any part thereof, so described, surveyed, plated and patent applied for, are hereby notified that un- less their adverse claims are duly filed with the Register of the U. s. Land Office at Tucson, in the Territory of Arizona, during the sixty days publication of this notice. they will be forever barred from asserting any su h claims.
 And l hereby order that this notice be pub lished for ten (Io) weeks in the Tombstone Weekly EPTTAPH, a newspaper published in the Town of Tombstone. in the County of Cochise, Territory of Arizona.
 A. D. DUFF, Register.